Wake in Fright
“Have a drink, mate? Have a fight, mate? Have some dust and sweat, mate? There's nothing else out here.”
DramaThriller
After a bad gamble, a schoolteacher is stuck in an outback town whose eccentric inhabitants are only too eager to turn him into one of their own.
VIBE
A suffocating descent into a primal, sun-baked hellscape. The air is thick with booze and desperation as a man's sanity unravels in the unforgiving Australian outback. It's a raw, confrontational experience that lingers long after the credits roll.
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